[ubuntu-uk] {Spam?} Re: transferring files between Ubuntu and XP slow!!!!

Kris Douglas webbox.uk at gmail.com
Sat May 17 00:04:00 BST 2008


On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 11:36 PM, James Grabham <jgrabham at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>> It's not simply eight bits per byte for ethernet packets, it's more
>> complicated than that and you're not taking into account collisions.
>
> Im a bit confused now...
>
> so how...
>
> I mean
>
> a Byte is 8 bits, a bit being either 1 or 0... I thought that was a
> fundemental of computer science.
>
> Am I wrong?
>
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There's bits and bytes... Megabits.. megabytes..

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